SAP Module Interview Questions Answers

Question - 21 : - What are the manufacturing cost of a producting ?

Answer - 21 : - Materail cost + Productions cost = Manufacturing cost

Question - 22 : - How does the PO pick up the pricing schema?

Answer - 22 : - The pricing procedure assigned to a vendor has a calculation schema attached to it. This schema defines the various conditions’ pre-requisite, calculation & sequence in the PO. Generally, only one type of pricing procedure is followed for all the vendors.

Question - 23 : - In real time, How listing and exclusion is used ?

Answer - 23 : - Listing and exclusion is used in chemical and pharma industries for ex:-Particular customer is not having a valid license of selling some chemical/Medicines and he is ordering the same. in this case listing and exclusion is useful

Question - 24 : - What is the difference between the stock transfer between two plants belonging to same company code and those belonging to different company code?

Answer - 24 : - 1. A stock transfer from plant to plant generally takes place within a company code. It can, however, also take place between two company codes, if the plants are assigned to different valuation areas, which belong to different company codes.
Unlike a stock transfer from storage location to storage location, a stock transfer from plant to plant affects both accounting and Materials Planning, as follows:
* Accounting
Accounting is affected if both plants are assigned to different valuation areas. This means that a stock transfer leads not only to a quantity update but also to a value update (stock value, G/L accounts). Thus, parallel to the material document for stock transfer, an accounting document is created.
* Materials Planning
Materials Planning is affected because a change of plant stock is taken into account by Materials Planning.
2. The stock transfer from one plant to another belonging to same company code is same as that of belonging to different company code functionally.
In both the types of transfers, there will be a material document generated which will update the QTY in both the plants in the respective storage location.
Accounting document generation will depend on the valuation level of the material. If the materials are being valuated at company level and it is being transferred from one plant to another belonging to the same company code, no accounting entry is generated. However, if the valuation is being done at plant level, the accounting document will be generated in both the cases.

Question - 26 : - What is the difference between a contract and a scheduling agreement?

Answer - 26 : - A scheduling agreement can be made for Consignment, Subcontracting and stock transfer. A contract, also known as a blanket PO, can be made for standard items and can be restricted to a Value or QTY.

Question - 27 : - What is the difference between business area and profit center?

Answer - 27 : - 1. Business area is where the total business is valuated as a whole
Whereas Profit centre is an area where the company/work place allows the outside agency to use its machinery for external profits (eq: A CNC machine which can run 24 hrs a day is utilized in our company for 15 hrs and the balance 9 hrs is let out for addition to the company's profit) is known as Profit Centre.
2. Business area is related term to FI module and Profit centre is related to CO module. One business area can have one or more profit centers.
3. Business area is gared on external accounting where as profit centers are used for internal accounting purposes

Question - 29 : - How to create a Purchase Order to a vendor who got best rating in Price comparision session (me49). I wish to create PO from this session directly, explain how can it be created?

Answer - 29 : - 1. Vendor rating has to be done for new purchase order everytime. PO can be generated by using transaction ME21N. This PO has to be released after creation
The other way is to assign that item to the vendor and maintain info records and update it by using ME11. This can also be done manualy.
2. This is not possible. Price comaprison session only gives you the idea which supplier has given the best price for a particular material.you have to raise the po ME21N transaction only.
3. The vendor who has got best price will have a unique quotation number. USe ME21N transaction and create PO with respect RFQ from Overview tab .